ABOUT BONFIGLIOLI
Bonfiglioli is a worldwide designer, manufacturer and distributor of a complete range of gearmotors, drive systems, planetary gearboxes and inverters, which satisfy the most challenging and demanding needs in industrial automation, mobile machinery and renewable energy.
Established in 1956, Bonfiglioli operates worldwide in 20 countries and 18 production facilities, with a wide network comprising 550 distributors and over 5.000 employees.
Excellence, innovation and sustainability are the drivers behind our growth as a company and team.
We are looking for a Legal & Corporate Affairs Specialist to join our Team based in Calderara di Reno (BO).
MAIN RESPONSABILITIES
Within the Legal Team, the Legal & Corporate Affairs Specialist provides general legal advice and support to the HQ and its foreign subsidiaries on various legal matters, including general corporate issues, commercial contracts, and compliance. In particular:
* Provides legal advice to corporate functions to ensure the legal correctness of corporate procedures and report problems, non-compliance, legislative updates.
* Develops solutions in corporate, contractual, financial and legal matters by identifying tools and procedures to protect the company, which allow for tax and social security optimization.
* Ensures support for negotiations, and drafting of a wide variety of commercial contracts (both national and international) by capturing complex legal and business concepts in a clear, concise and easy to understand way to collaborate with numerous internal functions, including sales, procurement, operations, research and development, finance and asset/facility management.
* Provides advising on general corporate matters in multiple jurisdictions, including corporate governance issues; drafting/reviewing corporate documents, including board minutes, shareholders' resolutions and by-laws.
* Provides advising on cross-border corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures, as well as real estate transactions.
* Responsible to translate, in legal terms, the policy choices of the company and in assessing the legal consequences of management decisions, as well as in making the company apply the laws that impose obligations on the company itself.
* Ensures legal assistance and advice to the Corporate and Business Units and reports to the company the opportunities, risks and business repercussions related to new provisions and regulations.
* Handles the pre-litigation phase by activating all the tools provided to settle the differences without resorting to legal action. In the event of disputes, it collaborates with internal or external law firms and provides the necessary material for the preparation of the documents.
* Advising on all regulatory compliance issues (including Law Decree 231/2001 and GDPR), providing day-to-day compliance advisory support to the business and managing compliance related issues in conjunction with the relevant internal functions.
REQUIREMENTS
* Past experience in similar roles.
* Admitted to the practice of law in Italy (bar admission, preferred).
* Knowledge of Corporate Governance and Commercial Transactions.
* Good knowledge of English Language.